Gonida Sofia-Eleftheria, she was the scientific co-ordinator of ( As principal investigator I participated in a project on the Social Aspects of Learning (SOLE) in collaboration with the Centre of Learning Research at Turku University, Finland (Prof. Marja Vauras). In Fall 2012, Gonida Sofia-Eleftheria was at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor as a Fulbright Research Scholar. Gonida Sofia-Eleftheria conducted research on help seeking and its avoidance in collaboration with Prof. Stuart Karabenick (Combined Programm in Education and Psychology). In the spring of 2013 Gonida Sofia-Eleftheria worked with Prof. Deborah Stipek at the Stanford Graduate School of Education on cognitive and metacognitive development in young children. Gonida Sofia-Eleftheria Ph.D. in Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. - M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Catholic University of Leuven/Louvain, Belgium. - Postgraduate studies in Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. - BA in Philosophy, Education, and Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. (Specialization: Psychology) Gonida Sofia-Eleftheria research experience begins in 1988 as a research assistant in projects carried out at the Psychological Laboratory, School of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. After my Ph.D, Gonida Sofia-Eleftheria have been involved in several research projects either as the principal investigator or in collaboration with others. i) a national project on gender issues and adolescents’ educational and career choices, (ii) a national project on the development of the “Cognitive abilities test for children and adolescents”, (iii) a longitudinal project on the development of cognitive, metacognitive and motivational processes during preschool and early school years (Ph.D: Julia Ntousi), (iv) students’ avoidance behaviors (self-handicapping and avoidance of help seeking) during elementary and early high school years: parental and school effects (Ph.D: Kelly Hatzikyriakou), (v) parental involvement in students’ homework: cognitive and ymotivational correlates.

Research interests: motivation and its development, avoidance behaviors, parenting, cognitive and metacognitive development, learning difficulties.